Liturgical Studies
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Calendar, Time, and Eternity
- Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, on the original
Structure of Christian Worship: Chapter 2 of Introduction to Liturgical
Theology (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood, NY; 2d ed. 1975)
pp. 40-71; including "The Mystery of the Eighth Day" (this section is also available as a separate pdf): the Church goes beyond the Sabbath just as the resurrection goes beyond creation (and thus the Seventh
Day Adventists and some 'messianic Jewish' movements, who don't get the difference between Sabbath and Lord's Day,
are deeply mistaken).
- Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, "Theology
and Eucharist": St. Vladimir's Seminary Quarterly, Vol.
5, No. 4, Winter 1961, pp. 10-23.
- Thomas J. Talley, "The
Day of His Coming", a discussion about the origins of the feast of Christmas
which appears in The Origins of the Liturgical Year (Pueblo Books,
Liturgical Press, Collegeville: 1986 and 1991), Part Two, sections 1 through
6 (pp. 79-103). Shows that there is little evidence for the popularly held
assumption that Christmas was instituted to counter the pagan Saturnalia.
- St. John of Damascus, “On
Astrology”: Book II, Chapters VI and VII of his Exact Exposition
of the Orthodox Faith.
